Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Minister for Public Service and Administration, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi is representing South Africa at the Governing Board meeting of the Centre for African Research in Administration for Development (CAFRAD) which began Monday in Tangier, Morocco.
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A police marksman in Zimbabwe Sunday ripped off the private parts of a suspected armed robber after he tried to escape from a trap law enforcement officers had set for him and other members of his gang.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Sudanese war has exacted a terrible toll and a poorly communicated human cost, exhausting a vast majority of the people who are disappointed by a lack of progress in the current peace processes.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian editors rounded off a three-day forum in Lagos Saturday with a declaration that the press must hold elected officials in the country accountable, as part of efforts to ensure good governance.
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Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi's alleged leader of a foiled March 2001 coup attempt has said that there was never any question of coup attempt against his country, describing the whole thing as a farce.
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Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- In its latest report published this week, the Central Statistical Office (CSO) said that the Mauritian population stood at 1,205,665 in December 2001, made up of 597,207 males and 608,458 females or a one percent growth.
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Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- At least 1,376 former Burundian refugees have settled in the eastern Muyinga Province since the repatriation of exiles from neighbouring Tanzania started on 4 April, official sources said.
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Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- About 12 west African countries are setting up groups to monitor violations of children's rights and recommend remedial action, initiators of the project disclosed Friday in Cotonou.
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Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- At least former Burundian refugees have settled in the eastern Muyinga Province since the repatriation of exiles from neighbouring Tanzania started on 4 April, official sources said.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The World Food Programme on Friday strongly condemned the decision by authorities in Khartoum to deny access to WFP flights to 43 locations in southern Sudan, saying the move prevented some 1.
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Paris- France (PANA) -- It is vital for the IPDC's Intergovernmental Council to associate media professionals and the private sector in its deliberations because they are major stakeholders in the development of communications worldwide, PANAPRESS Director General Babacar Fall said Friday in Paris.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Rabbi David Rosen, a world- renown leader in the field of interfaith relations and a former anti-apartheid activist, arrived in South Africa Friday for a 10-day visit as a guest of the Women's Zionist Organisation of South Africa.
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Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- African journalists attending a just- ended seminar on investigative journalism in Cotonou have protested against recent seizures of three Togolese dailies in Lome by that country's security forces.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The UN Commission for Children's Rights has forwarded sixty-five recommendations to the Ivorian government urging the promotion and protection of the rights of children in the country.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenyan government has been forced to suspend the issuing of passports to recruits wishing to work on cruise ships at a time when thousands of Kenyans are desperately looking for jobs.
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New York- US (PANA) -- A 12-year-old Nigerian boy who arrived in the US Wednesday on a flight from London after swallowing 87 condoms filled with heroin is now under custody and receiving treatment at a hospital in New York City.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- At least seven people were reported killed and several others injured in fresh clashes Friday at the Somali town of Lugh in the Gedo region, some 400-km south-west of Mogadishu, informed sources said.
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London- UK (PANA) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been approached to appeal to the African community world-wide for cooperation with investigations into the case of a young boy whose torso was found floating in a river in London last September.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Dr Wouter Basson, the notorious apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert has been acquitted of a number of charges, including murder, following a marathon trial in the Pretoria High Court.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Commission of Inquiry into a stampede at Ellis Park Stadium in April last year, which left 43 football fans dead and 158 injured, has concluded that the disaster was the result of a combination of factors, but no individuals were singled out.
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Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The third international Mediterranean- Europe conference opens in Tripoli Friday to highlight the need for dialogue between Africa, the Mediterranean region and Europe within the wider framework of globalisation.
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Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Elderly People's Council, operating under the aegis of the Ministry of Social Security and National Solidarity, on Thursday launched an 'Oscar de la sagesse' award for persons aged 70 and above who have made exceptional contribution in public life.
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Paris- France (PANA) -- One billion dollars that the World Bank set aside for education projects in Africa has not been disbursed due to the weak creditworthiness of intended beneficiaries, an official of the Bank disclosed here Thursday.
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London- UK (PANA) -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has welcomed the decision by 12 more countries to deposit their instruments of ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth said Wednesday night that the first-ever private television station in the country would start its operations in Mauritius as soon as frequencies are available.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya Thursday affirmed its commitment towards improving the welfare of its senior citizens by implementing programmes aimed at providing security and better living for the aged.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A team of five defence lawyers at the Arusha-based UN International Criminal Tribunal or Rwanda (ICTR) have accused the Rwandan government of controlling and intimidating witnesses.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Ivorian Justice and Public Freedom Minister Oulai Siene has appointed three new judges to be entrusted with the re-opening of the Yopougon mass grave case, a pro-government newspaper said Wednesday.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) has cleared itself of any blame in Sunday night's prolonged power failure at the nation's main gateway, Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, which left hundreds of airline passengers stranded.
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Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The international centre for pygmy children (CIEP), a Congolese NGO advocating the rights of pygmy children, has called for a national plan to that end in the DR Congo.
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Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Human Rights Watch has called on the donor community and the Commonwealth to exert pressure on Tanzania, including suspending the sale of military equipment to force respect of human rights in Zanzibar.
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London- UK (PANA) -- Amnesty International (AI) has strongly urged the Governor of Anambra State in Nigeria, to take immediate action to end impunity for the abuse of human rights committed by the State Vigilante Service.
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Paris- France (PANA) -- A French coalition advocating the creation of an International Criminal Court Wednesday said the speedy deposit of instruments for ratification at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva would pave the way for the establishment of the Court.
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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A former priest who was Rector of Christ Roi College in Nyanza, Nyabisindu Commune of Butare Prefecture in Rwanda was Wednesday transferred from Yaounde, Cameroon, to the UN detention facility in Arusha, Tanzania.
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